As severe thunderstorms threatened to hit parts of the Midwest and South on Wednesday, forecasters warned of potentially deadly flash flooding, strong tornadoes and baseball-sized hail.
A large swath of the nation from northeast Texas to Michigan was forecast to see the potential for high winds and tornadoes on Wednesday. The area at highest risk for severe weather is home 43 million people and many cities among the nation’s largest, including Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Memphis, Tennessee.
Dallas, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Nashville, Tennessee, were also at risk for severe storms on Wednesday.
Rainfall could be a once-in-a-quarter-century event
“We’re potentially looking at about two months of rain in just a handful of days,” Thomas Jones, a weather service meteorologist in Little Rock, Arkansas, said Monday.
The rainfall that eastern and northeastern Arkansas could see is something only expected once every 25 to 50 years.
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